Date of Award

1-1-2000

Thesis Type

Masters

Document Type

Thesis

Divisions

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Department

-

Institution

Universiti Malaya

Abstract

The Japanese civilization is among distinctive civilization in technology and domination in economical aspect. Destruction in World War II and limited resource is not obstruction for Japanese to raise and give the competition to the western countries, especially the United States of America (USA). This is because their leaders are stressing on the Japanese education. The Japanese had assimilated the other civilization into its own civilization to make it strong in various aspects like faith, religion ethics and morale. These various aspects were explicated with the original religion of the Japanese such as Shintoism, Buddhism and Confucianism that were originated from China. This is very unique and how the Japanese could adapt and practice these faith and at the same time with other beliefs that is also popular in the Japanese Civilization like Taoism and Christianity. Meanwhile, the Muslim civilization that originated from the Middle East was one of the great civilizations under the guidance to achieve success in here and after. Comparison between Japanese and Islamic civilization is to find equality and differences, which exist in both civilizations and in the other hand try to look for the cause of Islamic society weakness today. Discussion about faith in Japanese and Islamic society ever difficult but it is interesting phenomena.

Initial

snms

Additional Information

Dissertation (M.A) -- Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, 2000

Download

Share

COinS